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I think you're on the surface correct. But below the surface it can't be denied that in most of the western nations there is an increasing far right party on the knife edge of gaining power in each (Afd, RN, Reform UK, etc). We can hope that they remain out of power, but its hard to say that we won't see a bunch of Trumpist policy repeated in any one of those nations if they do take power.

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The problem as I see it, is that the US was a frog in a boiling pot for ages before this. All trump did was drain the water.

The UK is comparable. In that its largely been white anted by Brexit. But you still would have quite a job introducing poms to daily gun violence statistics.

Are there any other modern western nations where you get locked up for sharing memes about the government at a border crossing?

UK again I guess, did destroy its trade relationships with the whole planet and sent itself back to the blitz without a german bomber in sight.

But most of the rest of the world seem stable in comparison.

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